AnAeolian Brownie lass from
the Bluebark Tribe of
unusual strain... part Dwarf and part Brownie...
She established the magical interface that allows the Aeolians to communicate,
by sight and by sound, with any receiver throughout the lands.

Picture description: The Aeolian Bluebark Whisper, part brownie and part dwarf. Image drawn by
Enayla.

Because of the harsh environment they live in, some of the Aeolian Brownies have
chosen to be magically enlarged to human size. Whisper's mother was a Redbark
that had thus chosen, standing a few fingerwidths taller than the average human
woman. Whisper's father was a dwarven refugee, like so many others, taken in by
the Aeolians and accepted as one of their own.

Trained in the Seven Schools
of Magics, Whisper specialized in the Lightning
branch. She lived a fairly nondescript life, contributing to Aeolian life by
defending magically against real-world predators, and working hard with her
hands in the borderland between the real world and the Etherial
Void.

One day it was her turn to help to extend and expand the Land Between inhabited
by the people of Aeolia. This is done by imagining the void into a semi-real
scenery that was dependent on the void, yet not quite part of it, and then
magically lock it into place. This takes a very careful balance between the
imagination, the imaginary, the magic, and the operator. Whisper was preoccupied
and drastically upset this balance.

Her lightning magic tunelled into the void, changing the imaginary into
semi-real without the direction of anything but the most diffuse imagination.
Such a tunnel must have an end. It came out in a Dragon's nest. Whisper could
see and hear the dragon clearly, but physical contact was impossible - even when
the dragon blew fire at her she was not harmed. Whisper had discovered a
low-energy method of two-way communication using the Void as the communication
medium.

Over the next few dozen years her discovery was developed and perfected to the
degree that the Aeolians could "place a call" to anyone who had been
given a receiver. Each receiver was tuned so it could only receive calls
directed to it. Each receiver somehow consised of a living wooden border
surrounding empty space, which would become a window to Aeolia when activated
through the void.